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Indonesia Palm Oil Platform Newsletter June 2015Jul 31, 2015The Indonesia Palm Oil Platform (InPOP) was set up in October 2014 by the Ministry of Agriculture to promote sustainability in the national palm oil supply chain. InPOP provides an open and transparent forum for all palm oil sector stakeholders - the government, the private sector, farmer communities, financial institutions and civil society - to agree and act on a common agenda that will maximise palm oil productivity (especially for smallholders) while mitigating the negative environemnt impacts.
The first Newsletter was published in June 2015 to present the preliminary outcomes of the discussions of the four Working Groups laucnhed by the platform focusing on: smallholder capacity, the environment, governance and the Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil (ISPO) scheme.

Financing for Development and Small Island Developing States: A Snapshot and Ways ForwardJul 9, 2015This paper provides a snapshot of development financing in small island developing States (SIDS). It aims to inform and reinvigorate international policy debates around how SIDS can finance – and meet – the world’s new sustainable development agenda, the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals). It reviews recent key data on domestic and international financial flows, such as development and climate aid, foreign direct investment, remittances, tax revenues and savings. It also explores in detail some SIDS’ continued struggles to maintain debt sustainability. All SIDS regions, namely the Caribbean, Pacific, and Atlantic, Indian Ocean, Mediterranean and South China Sea (AIMS) countries are included in our evaluation.

Financing for Development and UNDPJul 9, 2015UNDP has a large portfolio of work on financing for development (FfD); from supporting countries to access and programme environmental finance, to working with aid providers and recipients to exchange knowledge and make development cooperation more effective, to carrying out research and policy advice on debt sustainability, to maximizing the potential of private finance. We are also involved in a wide range of important and much-valued partnerships.

Perspectives on Finance for Development: A Blog SeriesJul 8, 2015In this blog series, our experts share their thoughts and lessons learned on key financing for development issues, in the run-up to the UN’s Third International Financing for Development Conference in July 2015.

The Millennium Development Goals Report 2015Jul 6, 2015The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have produced the most successful anti-poverty movement in history and will serve as the jumping-off point for the new sustainable development agenda to be adopted this year.

Financing for Development: Addressing the Humanitarian – Development DivideJul 1, 2015The Third International Conference on Financing for Development will take place against a backdrop of an unprecedented level of need resulting from more frequent and intense natural hazards, increasing levels of conflict and protracted displacement, and public health emergencies that do not recognize national boundaries. These phenomena threaten the international community’s ability to realize the ambitious goals of the Post-2015 Sustainable Development agenda. Fundamental and transformative change in the global financial architecture that governs the international aid system will be required.

UNDP in Focus 2014/2015Jun 1, 2015UNDP 2014/2015 highlights our key actions over the past year and their impact on the lives of beneficiaries around the world. The report also outlines the ongoing restructuring process that will ensure UNDP is fit for purpose in the new post-2015 landscape.

UNDP 2014-2015

UNDP 2014-2015 highlights our key actions over the past year and their impact on the lives of beneficiaries around the world. The report also outlines the ongoing restructuring process that will ensure UNDP is fit for purpose in the new post-2015 landscape.

UNDP Global Programme

The Global Programme is the architecture that allows UNDP to provide coherent global policy advice and programme support services, based on country and regional programme experiences and drawing on the pool of evidence, knowledge and expertise gained by UNDP across all development settings.